The book of American interiors, prepared by Charles Wyllys Elliott from existing houses; with preliminary essays and letterpress descriptions; illustrated in heliotype (1876)
Elliott, Charles Wyllys, 1817-1883 · Boston, J.R. Osgood and Co. · leaf 133
oflife, yet cannot say, as Cowper once said, that he reads no con-temporary poetry. A long row of volumes with yellowish leather backs, onthe east wall of the library, is the French Biographic Generate.Above it is Amyots Plutarch,—a much better translation thanthe English one of Langhorne, who has… … 104 THE LIBRARY OF WILLIAM GULLEN BRYANT. Herder, and Schlegel, with others, the lesser lights of Germanliterature, and a few other books in French, Spanish, andItalian, principally the poets of those languages. The proportion of biographical works is rather large. Butthere are many of a…
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